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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Recruited athletes get a huge thumb on the scale because of the American money-generating sports culture. Not because it builds character.

It is what it is. Why do the parents of these students push back on this? Why pretend it’s so hard to get special treatment? You and your kid benefit from this. You win!

Why pretend?
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We do win.

Some of us have All-American, near-perfect GPAs,  1450 and higher SATs, AP/IB-loaded-up kids who are not better than yours; they just serve a function for Amherst and other schools.

Amherst and its competitors could easily fill a class with Indian and Chinese students that would run academic circles around all of us.  [bold]That is your competition and threat.  Not some kid you see as being less than yours because they played lacrosse at Deerfield.[/b]

You can't have everything both ways, can you?[/quote]

That's where you're wrong. Their kids could have been better at lacrosse than your kid they were never going to be better at academics than the Indian and Asian kids.[/quote]

I wouldn’t get too full of yourselves. My unassuming Bay Area white kid academically exceeds the strivers in her school daily. Nobody topped her SAT score and she took it as a sophomore. The top math kid from a couple of years ago is also a blonde blue eyed kid with top IB job in hand.[/quote]

https://maa.org/news/usa-earns-second-place-at-66th-internationalmathematical-olympiad/

My guess is your daughter not worried about the kids getting athletic preferences.
When the PPP says: "Amherst and its competitors could easily fill a class with Indian and Chinese students that would run academic circles around all of us." Your daughter is probably not part of the "us" in that sentence.

The "us" in that sentence maybe could have been a DIII level lacrosse player, that lacrosse player is not better than them.  The the "us" in that sentence was never going to academically edge out the best asian students that have crowded out so many of the "us" at the most selective colleges.[/quote]

My my my you are insecure.[/quote]

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